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Originally Posted by MrWideFrame
If I have excess cash I'm willing to overpay for a 1 year contract However, relief pitching is so easy to develop and there is usually a plethora of solid relievers you can sign for cheap near the end of free agency.
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I seem to have an issue in developing relievers.
Anyway, I had a lot less money in the off-season than I thought I would. Let him go. Made a ton of changes. Signed Hanley Ramirez, Adam Dunn and Torii Hunter in the off-season to fill out my lineup. Traded David Phelps for Joe Kelly. Signed Josh Beckett, Matt Magill and Josh Johnson for around $1mil each to piece together a rotation after losing out on James Shields.
As for the bullpen, signed Chris Perez and John Axford after good years and traded Matt Thornton and a couple prospects for Sean Dolittle and Caleb Gindl. Dolittle has been closing.
2nd in the AL in Bullpen ERA thanks to the minor leaguers I brought up. Perez and Dolittle have really been struggling. Somehow I'm 18-11 with Carlos Beltran still a couple months way form coming back.